Note: For an update on this story and the sheet music please see here To download this song click here —-> I have been trying to figure out where this song comes from, who wrote it and when it was written. If you know anything about it or have any experiences with it please post [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Favourite music for children
Posted by Mike Whitla on November 18, 2006
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First thing to remember is to expose you kids to all kinds of music, just make it good music. Listen to Jazz, Classical, Rock and Roll, music from other cultures, Country, Blues, Funk, Soul, Traditional music or anything else you can think of. This will really help them open up their ears and minds (as [...]
Doumbek solo by Jamal Mohamed
Posted by Mike Whitla on November 11, 2006
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I ran into this solo exploring some of the links on my friend Iner Souster’s blog. This is some pretty cool drumming:
Doumbek hotlicks video.
Posted by Mike Whitla on November 10, 2006
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Last week we had our second Rainbow Songs teachers workshop featuring an introductory doumbek lesson from Debashis Singha. We had a great time learning the basics of this middle eastern drum and got him to play a little solo for us. Here is a little excerpt: http://www.rainbowsongs.com/video/beladi_solo.WMV
Speech Accent Archive
Posted by Mike Whitla on November 5, 2006
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I have always been interested in how accents of speech develop and change. I was very interested to discover this website that features English accents from all over the world. This is a fairly systematic study of the way English is pronounced using the same text sample. You can hear accents from Mongolia to California [...]